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Shanker testified that after she asked whether it was true that Israel issued warnings prior to bombing certain regions, Massad instructed her to leave the classroom if she continued to deny actions committed by Israelis against Palestinians. Two classmates corroborated Shanker’s account, the committee said, and three students could not recall the incident in their testimonies...
...report gives no reason why Shanker’s account and her witnesses are more credible than mine and my witnesses,” Massad wrote. “The only explanation is that this illegitimate committee has bowed to the very outside pressure which it criticizes as well as the pressure coming its way from the Columbia administration...
...Combined, India and China account for nearly 40% of the world's population. Fueled by turbo-charged growth, they are both consolidating their positions as central actors in the international economy. Inevitably, their economic heft will be accompanied by political influence. China is pursuing economic alliances everywhere from Southeast Asia to Latin America; India may well soon have a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. Taken together, India's and China's rise to prominence is the great story of our time...
Both of these problems are solved by an individual account Social Security system. A Social Security system based on individual accounts would provide workers with the benefits and the safeguards of true ownership. Individual accounts would give all workers a true legal right to their benefits. Social Security would no longer be a political football, and workers and retirees would not have to worry that someone in Washington might cut their benefits. Furthermore, upon the worker’s death, the money in the worker’s retirement account could be passed on to his or her spouse, children...
...private accounts within Social Security would add a large measure of risk. Many individuals do not have the time, the sophistication, or the interest to manage private accounts, thus putting themselves in potential jeopardy. Private investments of any kind may lose money as well as make money. What goes up can always come down, as anyone who has watched the stock market in the last few years knows well. What if the market is down when the retiree needs the money in the private account? And what if it stays down? Most individual investors’ portfolios have still...